LEGAL CONFERENCE
OPENING ON APRIL 20
Legal practitioners from many parts of New Zealand will be assembling in Christchurch on April 20 to attend the legal conference which is to open that day. A feature associated with the conference will be the laying of the foun-dation-stone of the new Christchurch Law Courts by his Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Galway. This function will be attended by members of the Bar in forensic attire, leading representative ciitzens of Christchurch, and several members of the Judiciary.
The conference will open with an address by the president of the New Zealand Law Society, Mr. H. F. O'Leary, K.C., of Wellington, which will be followed in the afternoon by a paper entitled "The Jury System: Is Reform Desirable?" by Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.C., of Auckland. In the evening there will be a conference ball, which is to be attended by the Gover-nor-General. Among the business set down for the next day, when the conference will conclude, is a remit recommending the approval of the principle of absolute liability in motorcollision cases with provision for assessment of damages by a Judge and two assessors. At night there is to be a Bar dinner, at which the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, is to be present.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 84, 9 April 1938, Page 10
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